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As a Scottsdale personal trainer, I have to stay up to date with all the current information and advances in the fitness. industry. Scottsdale personal trainers are in abundance, and to ensure that I stay up to speed and a cut above the rest, I am constantly taking continuing education classes and reading recent and renown fitness magazine and articles.

Lately, I have been reading up on high intensity, short workouts. As opposed to long duration jogs or lifting routines. This is something that as a Scottsdale personal trainer, I have always been a believer in and I am so glad that it is getting more and more media spotlight and scientific support.

Short, yet intense workout sessions incorporating resistance training, sprints, and plyometrics are the way to profoundly effect your hormonal and structural makeup so that you can build muscle, and blast fat off. Plus, this style of working out saves you time.

Human growth hormone and testosterone are two of the biggest biochemical factors that get released during short, yet intense exercises. The hormones do a number of things…check it out: Continue reading “Intensity and Failure” »